Safety Culture Plus

We discussed injury cost in the last post. It is worth recapping now and take another look at it from a different perspective. In the book, “Practical Loss Control Leadership,” Frank Bird, Jr. and George Germain use the same analogy of the iceberg theory to describe accident (injury) costs. Bird and Germain contend that the medical or insurance compensation costs are the visible tip of the iceberg. For example, for every $1 spent on an obvious injury, from $5 to $50 or more is likely to be spent on below the surface (below the iceberg.)

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In a previous post I discussed how to develop a Safety Culture and believe that I have shown how it will work in the correct environment. On the other hand I have discussed why it will also fail. Of course the major reason why a safety culture fails is lack of Management commitment. I think that anyone reading this post will agree that management leadership is the keystone of any process. If you have an arch with a keystone and the keystone is damaged or removed, what happened to the arch? It will weaken and may fall unless you get this keystone repaired. Think about it, we are all leaders to some degree. If you are not a leader in your facility, you may be a leader in an organization, your family, your church, your community, etc. As I stated, we all are leaders to some degree.

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